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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Welcome to 2013

Happy New Year and Merry Christmas also –

Summer holidays and assorted nonsenses have been happening-

We went up to Mexico for the holiday season in a family
group and we ALL got sick, but we had two bathrooms and a balcony with a charming
view of the water, so it turned out a perfectly presentable holiday.

I started the wave with a serious dose of food poisoning on
Christmas Eve, and won a very SPECIAL Christmas present- a house visit from the
handsomest young doctor in South America.

Have you seen the film The Motorcycle Diaries?It’s a beautifully filmed love-letter to
South America, and it stars a very young Gael Garcia Bernal at his most
ruggedly charismatic.My doctor looked Just
Like He Did, but with cheekbones even finer and a mouth even tenderer and eyes
that looked directly into your soul and told you that their deepest dream was
to make you all better – MUCH better – right here, right now -

My sister Dr Tabubil hung around the bedroom door frame, gawking,
while Mum shoved at her from behind, whispering “YOU’RE a doctor too – He NEEDS
you to consult!Go!!” One particularly
sharp push sent her lurching into the bedroom and the doctor turned his melting
eyes on HER –

All things considered, the transferal of attention came as
something of a relief.I was sweating,
stumbling, scarcely lucid, and my insides were running backward –

The most STUNNING male physician in the history of the
species was standing in my bedroom, and he was running seriously second in
attractiveness to a mixing bowl.

Mr Tabubil found it all rather amusing. But chose to do his
giggling outside, the balcony, where nobody could hear him.

About Me

I am an Australian architect, married to a Canadian who followed me home.
In September 2011 we relocated from rural South Australia to the bustling metropolis of Santiago, Chile, where it's warmer than Canada, but less insect-y than Australia.
How's that for a compromise?